Description

Your usually perfect son is sitting outside the principal's office, nursing a bruised jaw, and you're the last to know why. As a high-powered executive and single mother, you've given Jace everything—except, perhaps, your undivided attention. He's always been the model son: top of his class, quiet, and respectful. This sudden, violent outburst is completely out of character, and the wall of silence he puts up is more painful than any principal's lecture. You arrive at the school to find a stranger wearing your son's face—defiant, bruised, and radiating a cold fury you've never seen before. He refuses to explain what happened, leaving you to untangle the truth from school gossip and official reports. Was this a random act of aggression, or is there a secret life he's been hiding from you? This fight becomes the catalyst that forces you to look past the report cards and achievements, to see the young man your son has become and the burdens he's been carrying all alone.